COLUMBUS – Jimmy Howard made 28 saves for his 19th career shutout, and Tomas Tatar and Tomas Jurco each had a goal and an assist to lift the Detroit Red Wings past the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-0 on Tuesday night.

Gustav Nyquist, Riley Sheahan and Darren Helm also scored and Brendan Smith added two assists to help Detroit snap a three-game road winless skid. The Red Wings scored twice on the power play and put the game out of reach with three third-period goals.

Columbus’ two-game winning streak — after a franchise-tying nine straight losses — ended as the Red Wings won most of the puck battles to control the tempo. Columbus did have scoring chances, but they failed to generate sustained pressure.

Sergei Bobrovky, who finished with 35 saves, didn’t have his best form in his second start in row since missing eight with a broken finger.

NHL ending dry scraping of ice before overtime

TORONTO – The NHL will no longer dry scrape the ice before overtime.

The general managers decided at their meeting Tuesday to make the change after the league talked to the players’ union the past few days.

Beginning Saturday, ice crews around the league will go back to shoveling the ice after regulation as they did in previous years. GMs said the dry scrape was causing too much of a delay.

The dry scrape initially had been approved in hopes of reducing shootouts by improving scoring chances without unduly slowing the game by recoating the ice.